Jay Voorhees developed a great series of posts over the past couple weeks on A Letter to an Incoming D.S. - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. Don't know how many of the District Superintendents in my conference have stumbled upon this blog (my guess is not many), but it's definitely worth the read for everyone in the Methodist connection.

From Wired Magazine: High School Debate at 350 Words a Minute. I had just been thinking about my times in high school debate, sneaking into college libraries (getting kicked out of the Drake Law Library on account of my friend "looking too young to be here"), and all the cutting, pasting and photocopying for our files, and wondered how all that might change with smart-phones, laptops and tablets; this article totally answered my questions. (If you follow the link and view the video just know that I could never speak quite as fast as those in the video, but I did speak in that same fashion).

Michael Hyatt: The Secret to Happiness as You Get Older - I remember in my Pastoral Care class we were studying Erikson who (basically) said at the last stage of life you can "get better or get bitter".